Preface: Eversince I dumbly deleted my blog (see 'Home'), a lot of things have changed in my blog (in a span of four days). This is a reposting of my previous blog with minor revisions. The thought is still the same. When I blog, I covet.

I may as well rename this blog as Inggitero. Or A Blog Made of Envy. Why? Because everything you see in here is a product of my personal envy of other people's blog: from the tone, to the layout up to the widgets.

I admit I am a die-hard of Jessica Zafra's sharp and witty writings (and also of Isabel Allende's and Anne Tyler's). I also love Conrado De Quiros when he discusses non-political issues.

And then I read Nicanor (aka Batjay) David's Kwentong Tambay written in conversational Taglish. Suddenly I wanted to write in Taglish. I also saw a lot of incredible Saudi-based blogs written in Taglish: blog ng mangyan, http://magicsaucer.blogspot.com/, to name a few. And then I saw the kikay-style of Reyna Elena and I thought I'd adapt her style.

Finally, I thought I should continue writing in English primarily because I wanted an international appeal, or whatever. The truth is I envied the blog of Otep de Guzman's Willing Exile and how well he wrote his posts. Suddenly I wanted to be Jessica-Conrado-Isabel-Anne-Otep rolled in one. How I wish!


This blog used to be a two-column blog but then I saw how three column would make it wonderful. And so I googled it and followed Hackhosphere on how to convert my blog to a three column. I was happy for a while.

And then I saw how a two-column blog look appealing because of The Sandbox blog.

Hmmm....with the time I spent tweaking my blog, I decided I'd be better off with a three-column.


I initially had the simple pre-designed Label list of Blogger but then I saw Blogumus tag cloud widget! I thought it would be a wonderful addition to my blog. It didn't work and I do not have the patience (er, knowledge) to find out why.

I instead used the simple Blogger label and tweaked the format so it won't show the number of posts.

In closing...

Imitation, Charles Colton said, is the sincerest flattery. I hope those guys whose works I copied feel flattered and not sue me for stealing their thoughts. I mean no harm. Blame it maybe on my passion for blogging. It makes me do evil things.